Scholars have long looked to family composition to understand child well-being. The study
of family instability, or the experience of repeated changes in parents' union status during …

During the past decade, scholars continued to focus on how larger economic trends
impacted families across the income spectrum. From income and wealth inequality to …

This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to challenge service researchers to design for service
inclusion, with an overall goal of achieving inclusion by 2050. The authors present service …

In the field of family science and in the broader family policy discourse, debate is ongoing
about the importance of family structure for child outcomes. Missing from this debate is a full …

Multicultural Education of Children and Adolescents explores the foundations of diversity
through cultural portraits of young people from a variety of backgrounds, and provides …

Social, cultural, economic, and biological factors are widely recognized as critical
determinants of well-being across the life course. Yet an integrative understanding of the …

Joint physical custody, a parental care arrangement in which a child lives with each parent
about equally after separation or divorce, is an increasingly common phenomenon in many …

Building on Max Weber's observation that the state's reliance on formal tools leads to
governance for some and dehumanization for others, we investigate administrative …

Deciding whether or not to become a parent is a developmental milestone in the adult life
course yet the specific term of reproductive identity is not commonplace. Significant …